Orthothanasia at the end of life

synonym of dignity or paternalistic re-reading

Abstract

This study aimed to justify orthothanasia at the end of life, relating its
techniques to the achievement of fundamental individual rights of the patient out of
curative therapeutic possibility. It investigated palliative care in the search for dignified
death based on the denial of dysthanasia and the dissociation between palliative medicine
and euthanasia. To then, discuss if the orthotanasia practices alone would be sufficient to
print dignity in the death process of that patient facing terminality. With a qualitative
approach and a descriptive-explanatory objective, this article has a basic strategic
purpose; it was through the hermeneutic method that intended to lay the foundations for
the argumentative construction of this hypothesis and was willing to confirm it through
the use of the deductive method. To this end, the bibliographical and documental
procedure was adopted, especially the constitutional provisions and the resolutions issued
by the Federal Council of Medicine.